Arunah Metcalf

Arunah Metcalf (14 February 1771-15 August 1848) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NY 12) from 1811 to 1813, succeeding Erastus Root and preceding Zebulon R. Shipherd and Elisha I. Winter.

Biography
Arunah Metcalf was born in Lebanon, Connecticut in 1771, and he moved to New York in the late 1700s and settled in Pierstown, Otsego County. He became a successful land speculator, and he served in the state militia before serving as Otsego County Sheriff from 1806 to 1810, in the US House of Representatives from 1811 to 1813, and in the State Assembly from 1814 to 1816 and in 1828. He died in 1848.